TY - BOOK AU - Kuschner,David S. TI - From children to red hatters: diverse images and issues of play T2 - Play & culture studies SN - 0761842918 AV - LB1137 .F76 2009 U1 - 790 22 PY - 2009///] CY - Lanham PB - University Press of America KW - Play KW - Early childhood education N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; James Johnson --; Introduction; David Kuschner --; 1; What is Play?: In Search of a Definition; Gwen Gordon --; 2; Play and the Rhetorics of Time: Progress, Regression, and the Meanings of the Present; Thomas S. Henricks --; 3; The Plasticity of an Infant Monkey's Play When Exposed to Sheep in a Novel Setting; Peggy O'Neill-Wagner --; 4; Historical Changes in Infant Toys 1865-1930; Eva E. Nwokah --; 5; Playmate Preferences of Preschool Children Based on Race, Sex, and Perceived Physical Attractiveness; Harold Fishbein, D. Michael Malone, Dolores A. Stegelin --; 6; Parental Guidance with Four-Year-Olds in Literacy and Play Activities at Home; Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Jackie Nelson, Melissa von der Heide, Erica Kelly --; 7; All In a Day's Work: Children's Views on Play and Work at the Fifth Grade Level; Michael M. Patte --; 8; Measuring Playfulness and Extracurricular Involvement; Marianne B. Staempfli --; 9; The Red Hat Society: An Exploration of Play and Masking in Older Women's Lives; Careen Mackay Yarnal, Deborah Kerstetter, Garry Chick, Susan Hutchinson --; 10; Conceptualising a Pedagogy of Play: International Perspectives from Theory, Policy and Practice; Elizabeth Wood ER -